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just wondering, since I'm doing some experimenting with what i can and can't eat due to digestive issues (difficulty with solids) if there are people who have done better with just the simple BTD than with the more advanced Geno type and Swamis....I know a lot of you swear by your SWAMIs, but I can't afford to get it done or see a practitioner, and really would like some different opinions.thanks in advance.

As far as immediate health SWAMI and BTD are about equal. Long term health I cannot directly measure, but since it considering more factors including the resetting of genes, I think that I am better off. But I will never know what stroke it prevented, what cancer it prevented, ...

I did great just removing ALL the worst avoids, wheat, dairy, corn, pork etc, begining with BT. All the foods I eat are BT and SWAMI compliant but some go from neutral to beneficial on SWAMI. I like that SWAMI has more food ratings. I don't think there are any SWAMI Hunter food ratings that are not BT compliant. I think over all my digestion was better on BT but like C sharp said, I don't know what I'm preventing by eating SWAMI foods too. All my SWAMI avoids are also BT avoids. Hope this helps

As far as immediate health SWAMI and BTD are about equal. Long term health I cannot directly measure, but since it considering more factors including the resetting of genes, I think that I am better off. But I will never know what stroke it prevented, what cancer it prevented, ...

same for me, although I never attained full compliance on any three diets.

My SWAMI diet is a blend of BTD and GTD Explorer, but I'm not totally compliant. Also I try to choose foods that have a Low Glycemic index. DW and DD are A+, probably also Explorer.

So did I for the most part. I began to discover that some foods on the diet were not my friends, and I was not surprised when they were downgraded on SWAMI. Otherwise, many problems were resolved on the BTD.

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -- Benjamin Franklin

My health improved a lot when I got my Secretor status and started following the correct BTD (for nonnies).

When I switched to the Nomad diet, there were a few changes in food choices, and I don't remember there being a lot of difference in my health.

When I started the SWAMI, it was like a blend of the best of the BTD and the Genotype Nomad diet. I didn't expect to notice a lot of change in my health, but I was very surprised! The SWAMI prompted a lot of cleansing and healing in my body - periods of healing challenges, followed by stretches of feeling better than I have felt in decades. That has continued, and the process has impressed me by how much wisdom is innately in the human body, when given the chance to express itself.

All in all, I am now healthier than I have ever been. And I continue to go through occasional difficult healing periods that have a beginning and an end to them.

Another thing that is striking is my weight. Pre-BTD, I was carrying about 30 pounds of excess weight. I dropped maybe 8 pounds on the Blood Type Diet and then leveled out. Then on the Genotype Nomad diet, I dropped another 10 pounds and leveled out at that point. The SWAMI very quickly melted the remaining 12 pounds over a 2 month period, and leveled at that weight. This brought me to what I weighed in college, which I always considered my ideal weight. The difference with the SWAMI was that the weight loss was completely effortless, without any intention on my part to change my weight. With the BTD and the GTD, it seemed like I was always "weight aware" and trying to drop a few more pounds.

I'm very happy with how the SWAMI is treating me and how my body seems to be reprogramming itself.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.~Mary Jean Irion

I did better on the BTD than the Teacher's diet in the GTD book. I did better on the BTD than apersonalized SWAMI where I inputted all the information. I now have a professional SWAMI and I feel it enhanced my immune system. My energy is better than it's been in years, althoughI'm not melting any pounds. In fact, I gained a bit and can't seem to lose it....so perhaps my SWAMIneeds tweaking. I don't have the ability to input anything in my SWAMI myself as it's not onmy computer but on the computer at the clinic.....I have to wait until I see the shift again this summer.

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything.....they know how to make the best of everything!"

It's important, IMO, to define what you mean by "done better".One diet may be more do-able for you, and you'll therefore enjoy it more and perhaps be more likely to stick with it. A different diet may inconvenience you more, thus leading to impatience and dissatisfaction.

There are those here telling that the BTD was great, and then that SWAMI later confirmed some tweaking they were implementing anyway; in that case maybe they don't really need the expense / attention / lifestyle of SWAMI (the BTD being sufficient, combined with intuition).

There is, as you can see via the posts above, no single answer to your question.

Ultimately, what's your goal? It might very well be simply to train your intuition to know what to eat and when. In that case, you may wind up with your own individual Intuition Diet, transcending anyone else's program altogether, after using Dr. D'Adamo's program(s) as a training-ground.

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Chloe,Like you, I did better on the BTD than the Teacher's diet in the GTD book.And looking back I think I did better on the BTD than my personalized SWAMI. I keep thinking of going for a professional SWAMI. My immune needs help so perhaps I need to consider finding time for this.Does that person doing the professional swami redo measurements?Lin

Thinking a bit more about it, all the foods I eat are BT compliant as I said earlier but some have moved from neutral on BT to diamond or beneficial on SWAMI, like salmon and tuna which I adore. Spinach went to neutral but I still eat it often. However, I have also found that a there are quite a few SWAMI beneficals that I cannot tolerate. It is nice to know that if I do want to eat something not rated on BT, I know I can. Overall, my foods that sit best are all the BT foods, SWAMI's not as much. I do have to say I don't eat the portions and frequencies or all the foods on SWAMI or I would be a mess. WAY too much food and WAY too many carbs and not nearly enough fat. Sad as it may be, SWAMI misguides me there. When I first got my SWAMI I didn't do well at all thinking back. I guess inadvertantly I kinda went back to BT with some SWAMI foods that aren't BT rated. There are lots of people that do much better on SWAMI though. I like them both

Chloe,Like you, I did better on the BTD than the Teacher's diet in the GTD book.And looking back I think I did better on the BTD than my personalized SWAMI. I keep thinking of going for a professional SWAMI. My immune needs help so perhaps I need to consider finding time for this.Does that person doing the professional swami redo measurements?Lin

I had my measurements redone in Dr. D's office....originally in Wilton...Now my husband and Igo to the clinic in Bridgeport, Ct. where we see the shift and Dr. D. My professional SWAMI isawesome. Thought the one I did myself wasn't adequate. Gave me foods I didn't tolerate. Basically, I think people sense the ones they don't tolerate and for me, it was mostly the dairy.All I have left now in the beneficial dairy list is ghee, manchego and yogurt. About 5 neutraldairy foods (mostly aged, hard cheeses -- don't remember off the top of my head because they'rerarely eaten). The rest of my diet isn't drastically different except gluten grains aren't prominentor beneficial. My diet looks a bit more A like with most dairy gone. I'm not a typical Teacher. Ican't even see my tendons on my wrist. I'm a faint taster and I'm also an A2....(which mightaccount for some of the diet adjustments). I have lamb as a black dot. Chicken livers a neutral.I now have a diet that suits me better than ever.

Just wanted to add that because a professional SWAMI requires very specific information in orderto become a perfect "fit", I'd look for someone who has a lot of experience in doing this. YourSWAMI is only as good as the person entering the information.

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything.....they know how to make the best of everything!"

I did far better on BTD than I did on GTD. Had SWAMI not been available, I would have gone back to BTD after my 2-month trial of GTD. However, SWAMI is working much better for me than even BTD did.

I do aim for the SWAMI portions, although it's hard for me to stick to them perfectly, and I've found that I definitely need more fat than SWAMI allows for. I could never get portion control right via the lists in the book, because I'd always put myself in the larger end of the range than I should have.

Chloe,I suspect I am very much like you re the dairy and gluten. Gluten I completely avoid and for quite a while stopped dairy, but use a little Ghee, and yogurt made from soy or almond milk. And dabbled a little with cheese but suspect it does not work for me. Also I'm wondering about egg whites. How do you do with them?

I can see my tendons on my wrists, very teacher like there, but my lower half is more well built which I think is the explorer in me.Lin

just wondering, since I'm doing some experimenting with what i can and can't eat due to digestive issues (difficulty with solids) if there are people who have done better with just the simple BTD than with the more advanced Geno type and Swamis....I know a lot of you swear by your SWAMIs, but I can't afford to get it done or see a practitioner, and really would like some different opinions.thanks in advance.

I do well on the BTD, it solves my known health issues. I tried the GTD but didn't do as well but that could be because I couldn't decide if I was a hunter or an explorer or it could be it causes more detox. Anyway more questions than I was able to answer so I went back to BTD. I would one day like a professional Swami, it seems to be the most accurate with the best results.

Well.....I would say there were things in GTD that showed up on my swami that didn't do a thing for me even if I tried eating with confidence: rabbit, for example. Nice and lean but left me feeling malnourished. Today when I look at "tomato juice", for example, and know it means taking the fresh style instead of the canned style, then see the actual tomato as a "black dot"......ehhhh......there's stuff I can do without. I didn't need it on the BTD and still don't need it.Cassava, also, now listed as a neutral on swami because of genotype, but in actual practise mades me very sick afterwards!!!

I would say I can stretch the envelope further towards BTD once more when I do strict food combining rules. BTD also lowered my blood pressure to a normal level before I could ever get a personal swami report. I don't think I could do a straight GTD with no swami, practising food combining rules and still get the full benefits of the GTD.